They are still here.

Read this in one sitting John Sutherland!

Top tip for best things in October - the brilliant ChilternKills Crime Writers festival on Sat 5 October with an incredible line-up of writers raising money for Centrepoint Grab a ticket and see you there chilternkills.com Elliott & Thompson

Some great panels at ChilternKills already. Writers Room with Matthew Arlidge Julia Crouch 🇺🇦🇪🇺 Steph Broadribb Lisa Hall and Paul Waters, then Page to Screen with Robert Thorogood (now on bluesky) Hamish Morjaria Jane Casey Kate London #TheTower and David Fennell. Looking forward to mine at 5.30, Rights

Lovely folk, and all very funny too!

Great day ChilternKills. So many people to thank … BIG thanks to Tony Kent & David Fennell for chairing.

Happy to announce I've founded a new prize for UK writers - the RSL Scriptorium Awards - which offers my pension-investment cottage on the Kent coast to writers for free for up to a month each. Applications open Spring 2025. A jury will choose the writers & I will have zero

Please follow me on BlueSky. I’m trying to make the move. Keeping my X account for the time being but trying to make the move.

Very sad news. I’m proud of what we achieved and it was a fantastic experience. I’m not done yet … watch this space.

One week!

The headline says it all. Caroline Dinenage MP is spot on in the Telegraph today. telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/…

Happy publication day to Imran Mahmood. Great writer, clever AF. Just a shame he’s such a nasty man. ❤️

An appeaser is one who feeds the crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. Winston Churchill

Since this utter garbage is trending, we should take a look at what Hayao Miyazaki, the founder of Studio Ghibli, said about machine created art.

Delighted to be in the running for the CWA Historical Dagger together with this bunch of reprobates.

It's National Librarian Day. Let's celebrate these guardians of the page working so hard to keep us nourished with stories, information & so much more! Favourite fictional librarian? Mine has to be the 'The Librarian' from Terry Pratchet's Discworld novels. #NationalLibrarianDay

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I’m proud to be joining bold new independent Firefinch Publishing for my new series. Margaret Stead was the first editor to buy my work. Here’s a pic of the morning after my first book launch - some Dutch flower delivery people gave me a free bunch of roses.

Five hours left to bag this deal. Thanks Kate London #TheTower for the fabulous quote. ❤️ #HerSistersKiller

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Richly deserved. Anna Mazzola - Updates only. is a terrific writer